Pervert council worker's sick messages to 'woman'
Michael Bamfield Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE
A paedophile council worker took bubble bath and cider to a meeting with the 10-year-old “daughter” of a woman he met on a nudist website.
But the woman Michael Bamfield was chatting to was, in fact, an undercover police officer.
He admitted arranging the commission of a child sex offence and was jailed for two years and nine months.
Read more about the case here.
Caught up in a knife fight
Jay Mapstone Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE
Jay Mapstone, 19, was given16 months in jail for his part in a zombie knife brawl and attacking officers at the police station after he was arrested.
Sending the heavily-convicted teen down, Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “You need to understand that if you keep behaving in this way then sentences will invariably be prison and they will get longer. Now’s the time to make the break.”
Read our court report from his sentencing hearing.
‘Bully’ attacked disabled man
Chantelle Hayward Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE
Chantelle Hayward, 28, struck out at her diminutive victim as he scooted down Manchester Road. The court heard the incident started in an argument over alleged non-payment for an x-rated Facebook show.
She was caged for 13 months. Read about that hearing here.
Thug glassed his ex after Monopoly game
Richard Pullen Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE
Richard Pullen, 45, was jailed for 10 months after he admitted attacking his ex. He’d thrown a glass bottle at her and refused to let her leave his flat when she said she wanted to return to her daughter’s home.
Jailing the Royal Wootton Bassett man, Judge Peter Crabtree blasted the thug: “She should have been treated with respect. Your behaviour on that night fell a long way from that.”
Read our court report from the sentencing hearing.
Attacker took wallet and keys
Bryan Chubb outside Swindon Crown Court
Bryan Chubb, 39, attacked a drunk man walking home from a night out, taking his wallet and keys. His girlfriend, Nina Austin, had earlier distracted the man by asking him to roll up a cigarette.
He admitted ABH, theft from the person, shoplifting and fraud by false representation. He was jailed for 18 months.
Drug dealer jailed for almost three years
Jake Bell, 30, of Curtis Street, was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.
At an earlier hearing he admitted possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin on April 23 last year.
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